Any time you see a campaign about “raising awareness,” it probably means next to nothing is actually being accomplished.
Health & Social Policy
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How the GOP’s Medicaid Politics Are Hurting Rural Southerners: An Index of Harm
Republican governors, empowered by the Supreme Court, have refused federal funds for the expansion of the program that provides health care to low-income people and the poor. Here’s the human cost.
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Will Electioneering From the Pulpit Be the Next Big Battle Over ‘Religious Liberty’?
Most at stake isn’t the freedom to worship or speak out, but eligibility for tax subsidies that are estimated to cost the government over $80 billion in revenues every year.
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How Republicans Are Heightening the Contradictions
Causing some short-term pain isn’t a problem, if it gets us closer to the day when Republicans rule.
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Can Liberalism Survive the Obama Presidency? (Yes, It Can.)
If Obama is a transformative figure, it isn’t in the ideological way he seemed after his election.
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Will Economic Populism Win Back the Midwest for Democrats?
The decline of industrial unions and significant demographic changes portend challenging times for the region’s Democrats.
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Today’s Conservative Obamacare Baloney Debunked
They’re absurdly excited that an adviser to the White House seemed to support the rationale of the Halbig decision in a 2012 video. Here’s why they shouldn’t be.
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Health Insurance for Millions Threatened; Republicans Celebrate
If they’re wondering why Americans think their party is cruel and unfeeling, well here you go. And will the news media tell these people’s stories?
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Why Democrats Need to Take Sides in America’s Class War
Straddling class divisions is so last century. There’s a new base in town, and it includes a lot of people who used to be middle-class but aren’t anymore.
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Good Obamacare News and the Republican Dilemma
The facts may turn against Republicans, but their political calculation doesn’t change.
